US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 22 for "Communication of fill level to receiving vehicle(s)" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,647, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Communication of fill level to receiving vehicle(s)" was invented by Kellen O'Connor (Clive, Iowa) and Jeremy J. Faust (Grimes, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic fill control system on a material loading vehicle generates an output indicative of a current fill level of a receiving vehicle into which the material loading vehicle is loading material. A fill level processing system generates a fill parameter indicative of when the receiving vehicle will reach a target capacity. The fill parameter is communicated to a mobile application on a mobile devi...